PolitiFact is often criticized for its fact-checking methodology, and some noted that it had rated previous statements by Obama along similar lines as "half true".
The unobtrusive sentences in the New Yorker were, on one level, fences keeping out theory and protecting, even fetishising, writing as a form of amateurism (ironical for a paper resting on so much capital, and as famous for its extravagant writer's fees as for its fact-checking).
If the outlines of the story are true, "Farewell," based on Serguei Kostine's novel "Bonjour Farewell," is still not a movie to be trusted for its facts, which have been stretched around a screenplay (by Eric Raynaud) that becomes more conventional as the film goes along.
National Reporting: St . PetersburgTimes Staff for "PolitiFact," its fact-checking initiative during the 2008 presidential campaign where reporters examined more than 750 political claims, separating rhetoric from truth to inform voters.
Flight 93 was more perfect for mythmaking for being so scant in its facts.
By Robert Mankoff February 1 ,2012 The New Yorker is known for its rigorous fact-checking.
Longtime Borowitz Report readers might ask: how will moving to The New Yorker, known for its excruciating fact-checking, change the Borowitz Report, which is composed entirely of lies?
You might think that the internet -- whom the media routinely ridicules for its lunatic, fact-free nature -- would score pretty high.
Millions buy it for its convenience, despite the fact that the music files' audio quality is usually far lower than what they would hear on a CD.
The state had not sought federal approval for its program, a fact the Bush administration stressed in urging the justices to invalidate it.
While he acknowledged that individuals cannot ever be fully separated from their society, he argued that life is an internal fact for its own sake before it is an external fact relating to others.
